People

Consistent with our mission, CIHRM brings together leading academics and practitioners from the field of human resource management and international organisations.

Our focus is on developing and disseminating robust ideas of the highest practical relevance through partnerships with experts from academia and industry, and other centres of excellence throughout the world.

The team

Philip Stiles

Co-Director of the Centre for International Human Resource Management; University Senior Lecturer in Corporate Governance, Cambridge Judge Business School

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Philip developed the Global Human Resource Research Alliance, a research group involving 30 companies worldwide - American Express, BAE Systems, BT, EDF, GE, General Mills, IBM, IKEA, Infosys, Matsushita, Oracle, Procter and Gamble, Rolls-Royce, SANYO, Sealed Air, Shell, Siemens, TCL, TNT, and Unilever. The project represents the most comprehensive worldwide research study in the subject. The contribution to knowledge has been to identify both innovative and best HR practices within companies, and to show how human capital integrates with key dimensions of social and organisational capital.

Philip is also engaged in work on corporate governance, focusing primarily on the dynamics of boards of directors. He was involved in research for the Higgs Review on the Effectiveness of Non-Executive Directors, and he is also involved in examining the nature of succession within companies, carried out in collaboration with an international headhunting organisation. He consults to a number of organisations in both the private and public sector, and is a member of the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN).

Jens R. Jenssen

Executive Advisor, CIHRM

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Jens joined as a Senior Advisor to BCG in 2015. He has previously held executive HR positions with major global companies within oil & gas and technology (including Aker ASA, Kvaerner Group, Aker Kvaerner ASA - now Aker Solutions ASA, and Statoil ASA - a Fortune 50 company, where he also served on the Corporate Executive Committee for several years.

Jens has also worked as an independent leadership consultant to major Norwegian and international companies in the areas of leadership, organisation design and change, M&A integration, executive development, staffing and sourcing. He has published numerous articles on leadership & change-related issues.

Jens holds a cand.psychol degree (psychology) from the University of Oslo, Norway, where he also studied sociology and philosophy. He is a registered psychologist, and an avid art lover.